A creature called David Etheredge screamed at All:

 DE> I am writing a program designed for the OS/2 full screen
 DE> mode and need to use  different colored characters on the
 DE> screen. In dos,there are textcolor() and textbackground()
 DE> procedures prototyped in conio.h. These are missing in OS/2
 DE> C-set. 

   Ah, wrong right there.  Those procedures are 'borland-isms'.  They are
borland-specific.

 DE> I know that in many cases, I can use ANSI escape
 DE> sequences yo acomplish this. Is this always acceptable in
 DE> OS/2? Does OS/2 accept ANSI escape sequences by default or
 DE> do I need to check to see if an ANSI driver is loaded? Is
 DE> there another alternative? Can I use the BIOS video calls to
 DE> set color? What about direct screen writes, from what I
 DE> understand, OS/2 does not like that at all.

   What I do is just use ansi sequences.  Yes, OS/2 by default supports
them, and no you don't need to check if the driver is loaded.  ANd why do
direct writes, when using DosWrite() or VioWrtTTY() will do just fine, and
just as well?

   .\\ike Stella

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